2007 Book List

Mar 24, 2007 12:25

I read too damn much.



1) The Crying of Lot 49- Thomas Pynchon (very good)
2) Welcome to the Ark- Stephanie S. Tolan (don't waste your time)
3) Special Topics in Calamity Physics- Marisha Pessl (pretty good)
4) Side Effects- Amy Goldman Koss (don't waste your time)
5) Notarikon- Catherine Bowman (some poems were amazing)
6) Oryx and Crake- Margaret Atwood (amazing)
7) Prep- Curtis Sittenfeld (good)
8) As I Lay Dying- William Faulkner * (pretty good)
9) Going Postal- Terry Pratchett (good)
10) Running with Scissors- Augusten Burroughs (pretty good)
11) Weetzie Bat- Francesca Lia Block (pretty good)
12) Elsewhere- Gabrielle Zevin (okay)
13) Godless- Pete Hautman (very good)
14) The Little Prince- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (exceptionally good)
15) The Queen Geek Social Club- Laura Preble (don't waste your time)
16) The Virgin Suicides- Jeffrey Eugenides (exceptionally good)
17) A Midsummer Night's Dream- William Shakespeare (very good)
18) The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald (very good)
19) The Penelopiad- Margaret Atwood (pretty good)
20) Impulse- Ellen Hopkins (good)
21) Story Time- Edward Bloor (good)
22) Peeps- Scott Westerfeld (good)
23) Our Town- Thornton Wilder (amazing)
24) Dancing on the Edge- Han Nolan (exceptionally good)
25) Where I Want to Be- Adele Griffin (okay)
26) Girl, Interrupted- Susanna Kaysen (very good)
27) A Clockwork Orange- Anthony Burgess (amazing)
28) I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You- Ally Carter (don't waste your time)
29) Twisted- Laurie Halse Anderson (kinda good)
30) Their Eyes Were Watching God- Zora Neale Hurston * (pretty good)
31) The Feminine Mystique- Betty Friedan ** (amazing)
32) The Girlfriend Project- Robin Friedman (kinda good)
33) The Plain Janes- Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg # (okay)
34) Breakout- Paul Fleischman (exceptionally good)
35) The Realm of Possibility- David Levithan (amazing)
36) Middlesex- Jeffrey Eugenides (exceptionally good)

*read for school.  ** read for school but freely chosen. # a graphic novel.

I'll be updating as I read them.
 

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